Scott Weiland Quotes

One of the things you do when you make a piece of art is you try to make the world you'd rather be in.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

One of the nice things about acting is that it allows you to open up to the other people within you.

There is no such thing as an artist - only the world, lit or unlit, as the world allows.

As long as you're true to you, you believe it and you make others believe it, then what you're doing is just art. If you give everybody a blank canvas and some paint, not everybody's picture is going to be exactly the same, but it's still art. I just do what I do.

I just wanted to be an artist. I didn't care how or what; I just wanted to express my artistic integrity, and I wanted the world to have a vision of what I was seeing in my mind.

If you have the ideas, and you're a creative person, then you don't really differentiate in how your ideas manifest themselves.

There's a good many pictures I'd like to make; we'll see how many I'll be allowed to make.

The interesting thing about acting is using all your own stuff and having some kind of personal catharsis while you're working.

You know, I would say that songwriting is something about the expression of the heart, the intellect and the soul.

There's not a lot of art forms where you can control your presentation and your ideas.

Art is the skin of the soul.

Being a creative person, I want to feel the highs and the lows.

The interesting part about being an artist is that the ways in which you express yourself are not always readily available.

As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

I think the great artists, especially in literature, have always thought with the heart.

My music is a very personal reflection of me, whereas, acting a role, that's a reflection of another character.

Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.

The Smiths was an incredibly personal thing to me. It was like launching your own diary to music.

I'm not so presumptuous to feel that they're gonna get it right away, get exactly what I have in mind. I hope that they'll enjoy looking at it at any rate, whatever it is. And that's why I started writing stories on my work.

In a perfect world, I would be a painter. I love working with my hands. I don't get to do it as much as I like, but I am finding a way to make more time as life goes on because it's a really great outlet for me to express myself.

Being essentially a creator, I never set out to shock, always thinking about creating my work and not about the benefits it could produce.

When you give an artist a canvas, you shouldn't tell him exactly how much paint to put on it, or exactly how sharp the images should be. You should let the artist get going.

There's no wrong way of doing art. It's an expression of the individual.